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Find out the latest news from the bookselling industry. You will learn all about the business of audiobooks, ebooks, manga, newspapers, and digital magazines.

How Customers Benefit from the e-Reader Wars at Target

Major companies in the e-reader sphere are jockeying for position in the…

SnapMeUp Offers a New Revanue Model Based on QR Codes for eBooks

London based SnapMeUp is offering a new service for established businesses to…

Eason to Launch Its Own e-Reader

Eason and Son is a storied Irish bookseller that has been in…

ebrary Adds 9,000 New eBooks to Government Libraries

ebrary won a government contract a month ago that put it in…

BBC Profiles Plastic Logic e-Paper

In the last few months, Plastic Logic has restructured the company away…

Kickstarter Quietly Becomes the 4th Largest Graphic Novel Publisher

When Kickstarter first launched in 2008, it had aspirations to tap into…

Bloomsbury Publishing Sees Exponential Growth Due to eBooks

Bloomsbury Publishing has announced an increase in digital sales by over 70%.…

Overdrive Opens New Office in Melbourne, Australia

Australia is one of Overdrive’s burgeoning markets and they have seen many…

Amazon to Open Dutch eBook Store This Fall

Amazon plans on opening a new Dutch ebook store this fall to…

The Kyobo Mirasol eReader Is Discontinued

The Kyobo was the first hybrid tablet and e-reader to use Mirasol’s…

France and Luxembourg in Hot Water over eBook VAT

The European Commission has officially launched an infringement procedure against France and…

Used eBooks May Be a Reality Soon

North America and Europe are rife with used bookstores that provide a…

Harry Potter eBooks to Be Launched in Japan This Summer

The entire Harry Potter saga will be unleashed in Japan this summer…

Kobo and ACCESS Reach Agreement for ePub 3 Book Reading Technology

Access has developed new ebook reading software called the NetFront BookReader v1.0…

News Corp. Board Approves the Spin Off of Their Publishing Division

The Board of Directors at News Corp. has voted to spin off…

Interview with Levar Burton on the Reading Rainbow iPad App

The Reading Rainbow television show was broadcast for almost two decades and…

The Walrus Launches new eBook Imprint

The Walrus Foundation is launching a new eBook imprint that will showcase…

Is Digital Magazine Company Zinio Looking for a Buyer?

Zinio continues to be one of the largest digital newsstands on the…

Production of New 7-inch Kindle Fire Will Begin in July

Digitimes is reporting that Quanta Computers, the maker of the original Amazon…

Leaked Documents Fuel Amazons Retail Store Ambitions

We broke the story a few months ago that Amazon was opening…

How Android Tablets Help the Real Estate Industry

With the advent of high performance tablet computers, the real estate industry…

64% of Readers Unaware They Can Borrow eBooks from the Library

Reading books on digital devices has proven to be quite popular with…

Random House Merges Top Publishing Companies in Canada

Random House has merged publishing companies McClelland & Stewart and Doubleday into…